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    A flower was offered to me,

    Such a flower as may never bore;

    But I said, "I've a pretty rose tree,"

    And I passed the sweet flower o'er.


    Then I went to my pretty rose tree,...

  • To offer brave assistance

    To Lives that stand alone —

    When One has failed to stop them —

    Is Human — but Divine


    To lend an Ample Sinew

    Unto a Nameless Man —

    Whose Homely Benediction

    No other — stopped to earn —